As residents in the small Victorian city of Portland voiced concerns about the loss of vital healthcare services in their area, the local newspaper—The Portland Observer—was there to cover the story.

This article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission. They are usually not the most scintillating content in ...

Nancy Gibbs is the director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Every couple of weeks you can read about another newspaper shutting its doors, or ...

Newspapers and reporters have had a rough few years, as they’ve been lumped in with those in newsertainment who led too many to become distrustful of the community-focused work our journalists ...

The percentage of large newspapers and digital news sites that experienced layoffs fell considerably in 2021 when compared with the year prior, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis, which ...

Pennsylvania’s most widely circulated newspaper showed up, without fanfare or explanation, in the mailboxes of about 1 in every 5 households in the state this April. A 12-page tabloid with a ...